Portable stock-inclosure.



No. 659,117. Patented Oct. 2, I900. S. P. WHITE &. J. C. MILLER.

PORTABLE STOCK INCLOSURE.

' (Application'flled July 17, 1900.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

N0. 659,!!7. Patented Oct. 2, I900. S. P. WHITE &. J. C. MILLER.

PORTABLE STOCK INCLDSURE.

(Application med July 17, 1900.

2 Sheets$haet 2.

(No Model.)

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STEPHEN P. WHITE AND JACOB C. MILLER, OF PULASKI, TENNESSEE.

PORTABLE STOCK-INCLOSURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,1 17, dated October2, 1900.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, STEPHEN P. WHITE closures, our object being toprovide a light com pact structure formed in portable sections capableof being transported to any part of a farm and there arranged to inclosea suitable area without setting posts in the earth, the sections beingso constructed as to adapt them, one or more, to be used as feed-racks,windbreaks, and shelters for stock.

It is our purpose to provide a structure of the kind referred to, anyone or more of the portable sections thereof being capable of serving asfeed-racks, which can be supplied from the outside, thereby enabling thestockfeeder or care-taker to avoid the filth of the inclosure, as wellas the possibility of attack by vicious animals. We aim also to providesuch an inclosure with a shelter or wind-break capable of being used asa salt-trough, so formed as to be removable when the inclosure is to betaken to another spot in order to lighten the structure and facilitateits handling.

Our-invention also comprises other novel and useful features, all ofwhich will be fully described in the course of the followingspecification and then particularly pointed out and defined in theclaims at the end of the same.

For the purposes of the following description reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showingour invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing the applicationthereto of our shelter or wind-break. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectionshowing a removable roof-shelter and wind-break capable of use infeeding salt to stock. Fig. 4 is a similar section showinga part of aninclosure adapted for pigs. Fig. 5 is a detail View showinga singlesection adapted to be used as part of a poultry-yard inclosure. Fig. 6is a detail view showing a feature of the detachable roof-section.

Application filed July 17, 1900. Serial No. 23,953. (No model.)

The reference-numeral 1 in said drawings indicates the front posts of aportable section, which are connected together and to a central frontpost 2 by means of horizontal strips 3, attached at short intervals, theupper strip being at or near the middle of said posts. These posts aresupported by inclined bracing-posts 4 on the outside, connected at theirlower ends to the ends of the posts 1 by horizontal strips 5. At or nearthe central parts of the latter are short uprights 6', which meet thelower faces of the inclined bracing-posts 1. Horizontal strips 7,screwed to said uprights, form in each section a manger, inclosedbetween said strips and the strips 3. A hinged cover is provided for themanger by light parallel strips 8, connected by transverse pieces 9,said cover being connected to the inclined braces by any suitable formof hinges 10, secured to the ends of the lower strip. By turning thislid back the hay or other feed can be placed in the manger withoutentering the inclosure, and by throwing the lid up over the top of themanger the latter will be securely protected against outside animals.Stanchions 12 may be used, if necessary, to prevent the cattle or otheranimals feeding at the manger from encroachments upon each other. One ormore of said sections may be provided with the form of wind-break shownin Fig. 2, which consists of a light boarding 13, secured to cleats 14and provided with a bar 15, having end pintles 16, adapted to engagebearings 17 at the upper ends of the front posts 1. The boarding may beturned down over the manger, and when food is supplied to the latter itis raisedand sustained by a prop 18, having one end connected to one ofthe inclined brace-posts 4:.

We may also use the construction shown in Fig. 3, composed of a lightdetachable roof 19, provided with a bar 20, which lies in the anglebeneath the apex of the roof, its ends having pintles 21, adapted torest in open bearings or notches 22 in the upper ends of the front andcentral posts. One portion of this roof covers the manger, and the otherportion,which extends over the inclosed area, is wider than the otherand is provided with a marginal trough 23, which will carry off waterduring rain-storms. This structure not IOO only acts as a wind-break,but shelters the stock, and can be used in feeding salt, the latterbeing placed in the trough 23 and the roof being tilted or turned so asto bring the trough within reach of the stock. Salt may also be fed froma box 24, placed across one end of the manger. At the ends of the trough23 are transverse pieces 23, as shown in Fig.

6, which are pivoted to the ends of the roof in such manner that theycan be turned back, leaving the ends of the trough 23 open, so that thewatershed from the roof can escape. WVhen the trough is used to feedsalt to stock, the pieces .23 are turned in the opposite direction tolie across the ends of the trough, where they prevent the salt fromescaping and being wasted. The detachable roof 19 can be held in eitherof the two positions shown in Fig. 3 or in any other position byinserting a pin 25 in ahole in one of the posts 1, said pin alsoengaging an aperture 27 in the collar-beam 2b, which supports the roof,two or more such apertures being fortned in this beam at such points asto suit the different positions in which the roof is to be used. Thispin 25 also serves to fasten the roof rigidly in its place and preventit from being blown on or changed. If preferred, one of the twotransverse pieces 23 can be a rigid part of the roof, so that one end ofthe trough 23 will be permanently closed, the water received from theroof being discharged from the other end of said trough.

The inclosu re is pig-tight or proof against the entrance or escape ofpigs, and means for feeding these animals may be provided bysubstituting a trough 25 in place of the manger, the strips 3 beingremoved and the back of the section closely boarded up. To prevent thestronger animals from depriving the weaker or smaller of their food, thetrough is provided with a series of short transverse bars 26, set in alongitudinal bar 27 and placed over the top of the trough.

One or more of the several sections forming the inclosure may bereversed or turned around, so that the inclined bracing-posts 4 will beon the inside of the inclosure. Such reversed section is provided with atrough 29 for feeding pigs. This trough can occupy the space provided inother figures for the manger, the strips 3 and 7 being removed, and toenable the pigs to be fed and the trough to be cleaned without enteringthe inclosure and without the necessity of removng or disturbing thetrough We provide the following means.

In suitable bearings 30 upon the posts 1 we mount a rock-bar 31, fromwhich hangs a panel 32, the lower edge thereof being just above theouter or rearward edge of the trough. Rigidly secured to said panel,along the lower edge of the same, are a number of division-bars 33,which extend over the top of the trough at suitable intervals, theirinner ends being set in a strong bar or beam 34, which lies just overthe inner or front edge of the trough 29. The panel 32 can easily beswung inward by a person standing outside the inclosure until its loweredge is above the inner or front edge of the trough, and the latter canthen be filled or cleaned, the pigs meantime being wholly prevented fromgeting at the trough. By releasing the panel it swings back to place byits own gravity, with the division-bars 33 across itstop, by which theanimals are separated from one another in feeding. The bar 34 projectsbelow the division-bars far enough to engage the inner edge of thetrough when the panel svt'ings by gravity back to its nortnal position.A projecting pin 35 may be provided on the outer side of the panel, onwhich the foot can be placed to swing the panel inward, so that theperson supplying food to the trough can have the use of both hands. Theends of the bars 33, secured to the panel 32, extend through the latterand into a stiff strip 36 on the outside. A fastening 37 may be slippedinto an opening between the panel and said strip, its end dropping belowthe edge of the trough to prevent inward displacement of the panel.

The several sections of the inclosure are connected together by eyes 28and hooks 29,

and the structure when once set up has great strength and is capable ofresisting any stress, although no posts are set in the earth. Entranceand exit are afforded by two gate-sections 30, detachably hinged to theends of two adjacent sections.

A movable poultry-yard may be provided by merely omitting the partsforming the manger and attaching a wire screen 31 or other suitablematerial to the front posts 1.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A portable stock-inclosure, composed of a series of separatesections, each consisting of vertical front posts, horizontal stripsconnected to the lower part of said posts, inclined bracing-posts,transverse strips connecting the inclined to the vertical posts,uprights between said transverse strips and inclined posts, horizontalstrips connected to said uprights to form a manger, and a hinged lid forsaid manger,substantiallyas described.

2. A portable stock-inclosure, consisting of a series of connectedsections having vertical front posts, short uprights and inclinedbracing-posts with mangers formed between the front posts and shortuprights, and coverings for said manger hinged to the inclinedbracing-posts, whereby the mangers can be supplied from the outside,substantially as described.

3. ,In aportable stock-inclosure, formed of separate connected sections,each formed of vertical front posts and inclined bracingposts, aremovable and attachable windbreak consisting of a boarding havingpintles at its ends near one edge, bearings on the upper ends of theposts to receive said pintles and enable the boarding to cover the upperpart of the inclined, outer part of said section, and means for holdingthe wind-break projected, substantially as described.

4:. In a portable stock-inclosure consisting of separable connectedsections, a wind-break and shelter consisting of a roofing havingpintles at its ends in line with the apex of the roof, the wider, innerside of said roof being provided with a trough adapted to carry offwater flowing from the roof, or to be used in feeding salt to stock, andmeans for holding the wind-break projected, substantially as described.

5. In a portable stock-inclosure, a detachable roof-section having endpintles adapted to lie in hearings in the upper ends of the posts, saidroof having a trough along one edge, the ends of the trough beingprovided with transverse pieces pivotally attached and capable of beingturned across the open ends of said trough, or thrown back to permit theescape from said trough of water shed from the roof, and means forholding said roof projected, substantially as described.

6. A portable stock-inclosure, consisting of a series of separableconnected sections, one of said sections provided with a trough and eachof the remaining sections with a manger and consisting of vertical frontposts, horizontal strips connected to the lower part of said posts,inclined bracing-posts, transverse strips connecting the inclined to thevertical posts, uprights between said transverse strips and inclinedposts,horizontal strips connected to said uprights to form a manger, anda hinged lid for said manger, substantially as herein described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN P. WHITE. JACOB O. MILLER.

Witnesses:

R. G. PATI'ON, DAN W. PATTON.

